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Newberry, S. C.
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at
the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
CAMP SITE PLANNED FOR
NEWBERRY SCOUTS
One of the greatest needs of Scout
ing in Newberry today is an adequate
place to hike and camp. Scouting is
essentially an outdoor program but
our Scouts have not been able to gat
much benefit from the out-of-doors
during the last few years because of
lack of proper facilities and equip
ment.
If this were merely a question of
giving our boys something for their
pleasure only, it would hardly be
worth tihe work and money involved.
But those who have studied Scouting
for many years recognize that most
boys receive more benefits in char
acter building and citizenship train
ing through their experiences on
hikes and camps than from any other
part of the program. Things happen
in the lives of boys seated around a
campfire that do not seem to happen
anywhere else.
Some of our citizens, recognizing
this need, have for some months been
working to remedy this situation. As
a result of this, work has already
started on a splendid camp site in our
beautiful park in Lynch Woods. Plans
are to pattern this camp after some
of the old South Carolina Forts with
the blockhouse enclosed by a stockade.
This will not only serve to provide
adequate camping facilities for the
Scouts but will add greatly to the
beauty of the park in a manner in
keeping with the history of our state.
Labor is being provided through
the WPA and most of the materials
will come from the park itself. Logs
are already being cut and stripped in
readiness for the actual building
which is scheduled to start soon. The
Scout organization in Newberry will
be called upon to furnish materials
which cannot be gotten in the park
such as roofing, flooring, windows,
cement, nails, etc., and it is estimated
this will amount to about $500.00, if
the project is to be completed as plan
ned.
Such an opportunity as this may
not present itself again and those in
Newberry who make Scouting pos
sible for our boys are asked to in
crease their pledges as much as pos
sible during the year so that this op
portunity may not be lost.
ELECTRIC BROODERS ARE
PRACTICAL, ECONOMICAL
Cost records from 21 electric brood
er demonstrations conducted on South
Carolina farms during 1939 show
that electricity is both practical and
economical for brooding chicks, says
County Agent P. B. Ezell.
The current consumption per chick
varied from one-fourth to one and
one-half kilowatt hour per chick, ac
cording to records of C. V. Phagan,
extension agricultural engineer. At
three cents per kilowatt hour the av
erage cost of current per chick was
one and one-half cents.
The principal advantages of elec
tric brooding as reported by several
of the demonstrators were automa
tic tempenature control and a reduc
tion in the amount of time and labor
necessary in caring for chicks. Sev
eral demonstrators also reported bet
ter feathering of chicks with elec
tric brooders than with other meth
ods which require heating the entire
brooder house.
Counties in which the electric
brooder demonstrations were conduct
ed during the year include Calhoun,
Colleton, Horry, Lancaster, Marion,
Pickens, Spartanburg, and York.
SHORT RESUME OF SOME BOOKS
AVAILABLE TO READERS
The following books are available
on the Newberry county WPA Book
mobile.
ANY GIRL CAN BE GOOD-LOOK
ING by Cades is a 4-H club Book and
tells very interestingly and piacti-
cally how and what a girl can do to
improve her appearance.
SECRETARIAL TRAINING by
Slade is a very practical book for a
future secretary to read. It will be
lots of help.
VICTORIAN HOUSE written by
Hewlett is a fascinating story of the
Pratt family and the building of the
great exhibition in Hyde Park, from
1848-1851.
END EXTRA CHARGE FOR HAND
SETS
Columbia, Feb. 17.—A yearly sav
ing of approximately $35,000 for
South Carolina customers of the Bell
Telephone system through elimina
tion of extra charges for “hands” or
“French” type sets was announced
today by the public service commis
sion.
Elimination of the special charge
will be effective on “all bills after
July 1,” Chief Engineer B. H. Barre,
of the commission said. At the pre
sent time, he explained, telephdng
customers are charged fifteen cents
extra monthly for eighteen months
for the hand set type. This charge
will be removed after July 1 and the
tpye of phone will be optional with
users.
JAMES H. WILLINGHAM
Last rites for James II. Willing
ham, respected and well lived citizen
of this city, were held Sunday after
noon at the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. Earl C. Taylor. Burial follow
ed in Rosemont cemetery where a
large gathering of friends came to
pay last tribute to this worthy citi
zen. The floral offering was abund
ant and beautiful.
Mr. Wiyingham was 65 years of
age and was confined to the local
hospital for about three weeks before
his death. He suffered an injury dur
ing the recent snows which was the
direct result of his death. He held
little hope, it is said, that he would
ever recover, though at one time his
condition seemed much improved.
Mr. Willingham was a man of quiet
manner who made friends readily and
whose death brought genuine sorrow
to many. His widow survives and
will continue to live at the late home.
Surviving besides the widow are
two daughters, Mrs. Earl C. Taylor of
this city, and Mrs. Grady E. Smart
of Charleston, and one son, J. Keister
Willingham of this city. One brother
John H. Willingham of Ninety-Six,
and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Darby
of Columbia and Mrs. Will Boozer of
Newberry also survive. Grandchild
ren surviving are Margaret and Susie
Sligh, daughters of Holland and the
late Mrs. Sligh, and Joan Willingham,
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keis
ter Willingham.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. J. W. Earson and Rev. M. L.
Kester.
COUNCIL OF FARM WOMEN
AIDING IN BOOK DRIVE
The County Council of Farm Wo
men is devoting the month of Feb
ruary to the Traveling Library. There
is a great need for more books, so
the drive for money and books.
The appeal is county-wide—who will
help—the council has been struggling
and has done wonderfully well. The
books have been enjoyed by people
all over the County, but there are
not enough available to leave many
at any Station. Many people have
books that they have read and enjoy
ed and could spare—we are asking for
such help on Friday March the first
when the new quarters (the old Cham
ber of Commerce) will be open from
4 to 5 for visitors. Those who feel
so inclined may bring a book or a
silver offering or you will be welcome
without a gift. The County Council
of Farm Women will give you a warm
welcome and urge you and your
friends to remember this date and
enjoy the time with them and those
in charge of the library.
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THE NEWUEKKT SUN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940
Memory of Dispensary
Should Keep State out
Of Liquor Business
By SPECTATOR
Since the beginning of the United
States. Government until today the to
tal sum spent by Congress is one hun
dred and eighty-four billiom dollars.
The New Deal has spent almost one-
third of this amount—and has ten
months more in office.
Some good has been accomplished,
but nothing so impressive as salaried
pie-eaters would have us believe. The
New Deal has been (and is) tremend
ously expensive to the degree of gross
extravagance; but it is just as ex-
travagairJt in its claims to virtue, to
humanitarianism and other qualities.
It has not discovered virtue, but it
delights in talking about it—like the
man who runs about bragging about
his wife’s skill in the kitchen. Other
men, long accustomed to “good eat
ing”, take some things for granted
airtd don’t run around talking all the
time.
No More “Authorities”
A bill is pending in the House to
set up another Authority, with power
to establish storage plants anywhere
and everywhere and to issue bonds
for carrying out the purpose. The
bill has a splendid purpose, but aren’t
we “fed up” on new organizations?
Would it nlot be well to do away with
some agencies we now have, rather
than set up new ones ? However good
a plan may bo, we are suffering a
sort of political indigestion which
threatens to become acute colic in a
body politic. As old Queen Elizabeth
used to say to her advisers, “No war,
my lords,” so I venture to voice the
sentiment of the people by saying,
“No more Authorities, Gentlemen.”
The News and Courier has been
pleased to suggest the name of J. K.
Breedin for delegate-at-large to the
National Democratic Convention. Mr.
Breedin appreciates the kindly
thought, but is so firmly rooted in ac
tualities that he never indulges in il
lusions. Neither Mr. Breedin. nor
anybody like him has a "ghost of a
Chance.” I admit that we could easily
find sixteen able, patriotic men in pri
vate life who would serve our De
mocracy acceptably, even with distinc
tion, but by “simple arithmetic and
complex politics they could not get to
first base even if given four balls or
a home-run. Figure it out for your
self. X amid Y must go, eh? P, D, and
Q must go, no ? A, B, and C must be
there, by all means—and so on. That
might leave a few places, but some
men must go so as to establish their
standing; others' must button-hole ev
ery delegate and pull every wire.
No man in private life will be chos
en unless he pulls a thousand wires,
or unless somebody pulls the wires
for him. Nobody can successfully
challenge the truth of that statement.
What chance has any private citizen
to be struck by tihe convention light
ning, when so many politicians are
running around with lightning rods
sticking out in every direction?
We are in a political run-around
more’s the pity. One man must go
because he hopes to be appointed a
United States attorney; another wants
something else—so there you are.
Still another man must go because
his uncle has a job with the New Deal
and he must be on hand to sing the
song, according to the classic of our
Dispensary days, “Whose bread I eat,
his song I sing.”
Mr. Breedin has one quality; he
knows what’s going on; he knows that
if every newspaper in the State should
call for some citizen to be chosen
the “fixers” would have it their way
just the same. With all the big sal
aried Federal officeholders fighting for
their jobs, do you think they would
consent to a mere private joining the
band? Oh, no! Hatch law notwith
standing, the Convention will be full
of “dummies” representing the boys
who are eating the pie. Besides, the
Santee Authority and the TV A—and
all those multifarious sublimations of
the alphabet—will be Johnny-on-the-
spot.
A liquor store system is again being
proposed. The proponents are able
lawyers and have probably studied
carefully all the legal phases; more
over, they are genuinely concerned
about the danger of deficits and new
taxes. Why a determined stand for
retrenchment would not save the situ
ation must prompt a question. To
reduce appropriations is not easy; nor
indeed is it easy to head off new pro
posals which call for heavy spending.
Some of these gentlemen have be
come discouraged, perhaps even dis
gusted, and think it wiser to guide
the current than to stem it.
The idea of the gentlemen who
sponsor this bill is that it will raise
revenue. With all rega/rd for men
whom I respect, I submit that tihe pro
posed bill would raise more “trouble”
than it will raise revenue. And I
might substitute a short word for the
word “trouble” and make my mean
ing clearer.
We had state liquor dealing once;
it should be a memory still too fresh,
and a smell still too foul to tempt us
again. There is something about the
liquor business which befouls and be
smirches all who touch it. It -e s
to carry an inherent taint. If our
religion meant anything to us we
should be governed entirely by prin
ciple; but, in tihe wisdom of men, we
rely on policy.
Policy, then, is the matter before
us, and most earnestly let us study
tihe question as one of policy, letting
our faith “stand in the wisdom of men.
rather than in the power of God.”
Religion j s supposed to be a funda
mental concern, even in the business
of living, but we remember is most
vividly in the moment of dying.
The sale of liquor promotes the use
if it, and the use of it hurts tihe in
dividual citizen; but now if we put
the State into it as a merchant, we
REVIEW
of NEW BOOKS
PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D.
1735 Woodburn Ave.
Covington, Ky.
THE OPENING DOORS OF CHILD
HOOD. By Lewis Joseph Sherrill.
The Macmillan Company, New York.
Pp. xi-193. Pr. $1.75.
This worthy book will be gratefully
received in thoughtful circles. It is
an honest attempt to do for the grow
ing child just what real Christian
leaders have always wanted to do; it
is also an honest attempt to point out
the wrong notions that are preva
lent in certain types of minds. It is
a clear statement of the opportuni
ties, the challenges, the probabilities,
and the potentialities that confront
both teachers and parents that have
growing children under their care to
train in the best type of Christian
living. The challenge of “the open
ing doors of childhood” depicts not
only a better way of life; it is a chal
lenge to find the best way to train
the young, to answer their questions,
to meet their problems, to fit them
for life and for service to others.
Any book that purports to do what
this book does must face squarely
both anthropomorphism and anthrop-
opathism in depicting God, that is,
it must have a real message for the
child to eret from those who speak of
God, biblical and extra-biblical, _ in
terms of the form of man, such as
anthromorphism, and from those who
also speak of God in the terms of the
actions of man, such as anthropo-
pathism. There is much to gain from
a study of this book; it is not meant
to be exhaustive. One of its outstand
ing features is its readableness, its
understandableness. There are many
shall corrupt the State itself. Let no
man think that I write this as a
^holier-than-thou.” I recognize the
virtues of many men who take their
“toddy’; and some of those men are
the very fimiewt men I know; but I re
call clearly the State Dispensary and
the grip it had on us. A man running
for Governor, on down to a man run
ning for Coroner, would declare his
firm adherence to the Dispensary.
Shall we operate liquor stores?
What’s all this talk about the Santiee-
Cooper? You heard it, didn’t you?
Or, are you saying it for yourself? A
refuge for politicians, some declare;
a haven for political lame-ducks; a
chance for big salaries and easy mo
ney, some affirm; a great political
power-house, say others. I need not
say more than this: if our State
should have State-operated liquor
stores, you will see something that
would make the old Dispensary live
as a delicious fragrance, by compari
son, and will make the Santee-Cooper
appear a bunch of tight-wads.
With the warmest appreciation of
the earnest effort of the gentlemen in
the Senate to avert a deficit or to
avoid new taxes, I think the danger
in a liquor lobby and a whisikey-ring
are worse than deficits and new taxes.
After all, we can arouse the people
of the State to a pitch that will deter
any man from proposing a new tax.
May I say that following the state
wide campaign of the Farmers and
Taxpayers League in 1932, the voters
elected an overwhelming majority of
new men to the House; and mairty of
the high-spenders of the Senate dur
ing 1932 are now at home devoting
their time to private affairs. That
shows what can be done. 1
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor
Bethany:
Sunday 10 a. m. Sunday school.
Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt.
Sunday 11 a. m. Divine worship.
Sermon by Pastor.
Summer Memorial:
10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr. Eu
gene Shealy, Supt.
6 p. m. Luther League. Church
Workers Conference.
7 p. m. Divine worship.
Visitors are invited to attend all
of these servies.
MT. TABOR LUTHERAN PARISH
D. M. Shull, Pastor
Mt. Tabor: Friday 2:30 p. m. Cate
chetical class.
10:00 a. m. Sunday school. Prof.
J. W. Ballentine, Supt.
11:00 a. m. The service.
3:00 p. m. Luther League.
Mt. Pilgrim: 10:00 a. m. Sunday
school. Mr. B. O. Lovelace, Supt.
3:00 p. m. Luther League in home
of Mr. C. B. Schumpert.
Mt. Olivet: Saturday 9:00 a. m.
Catechetical class in home of Mr. A.
K. Shealy.
3:00 p. m. Sunday school. Mr. O.
O. Martin, Supt.
Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Lenten
services.
VIRGIL PROCEEDS FOR BLIND
The Great Virgil, who appeared
here Monday night at the high school
auditorium and sponsored by _ the
Lion’s club, amazed a large audience
with many feats of magic.
According to C. E. Hendrix, presi
dent of the club, the proceeds will be
used for the sight conservation and
blind work in Newberry county. This
is one of the club’s major projects. $30
was cleared for this fund.
salient passages. The type of refer
ence that strikes the keynote of the
book is one like this is found on page
39: “It is not too much to say that
the first great teaching which a child
receives concerning God is given him
by his father and mother through
what they are. If a parent should
ask, ‘How shall I first teach my child
about God?’ we should finally have
to go farther back than the sugges
tion ‘Begin with Jesus.’ For at the
very first, one needs to be the kind
of father or mother that will never
need apology. Definitions of God
are important, but they can wait past
early childhood without serious loss.
But the definition of God through par
ental personality commences for a
child long before he is born, and from
the day of his birth he begins to take
these definitions of God into his own
deepest self. And there is no way to
put off teaching this kind of theol
ogy.” A book that grounds its mes
sage with this care is not likely to
go astray. A fine book.
ST. PHILIPS ITEMS
Thursday, February 22, was George
Washington’s birthday. He was born
in 1732 at 7 o’clock in the morning.
He was a surveyor at 16 and follow
ed that trade for many years. He
was engaged in the Frenoh-Indian
war and afterwards settled down at
Mount Vernon. He married at the
age of 27, on January 6th, 1759. He
was a large tobacco planter until
the Revolution. A good name is
rather to be chosen than great riches.
It has been 208 years since Washing
ton but his name still lives.
The son of Mr. C. W. Summer left
CITY LOTS FOR SALE
On March 2, 1940, the undersigned
will offer for sale, on the ground, at
public auction, to the highest bidder,
thirteen (13) lots on East Johnstone
Street; twelve (12) lots on Adelaide
Street; two (2) lots on Jones Street;
beginning on Johnstone Street at 10
o’clock, on Adelaide Street at 11
o’clock; on Jones Street at 12 o'clock,
for ONE - THIRD (1-3) cash, with
privilege of paying more or all in
cash, balance in one year, with inter
est from day of sale at seven per
cent, per annum, to be secured by
mortgage of lot purchased. Purchaser
to pay for revenue stamps and for re
cording deed and mortgage. Plats
of lots on file with the undersigned.
H. C. HOLLOWAY,
FRANK R. HUNTER,
Selling Agent.
I also offer for sale, privately, the
following lots: SWittenberg house and
lot on College Street; Bedenbaugh
house and lot on Vincent Street;
Hutchinson (2) houses and lot on
Drayton Street; Shealy house and lot
on Adelaide Street; Daniels house and
lot on Crosson Street; Longshore
house and lot on Railroad Avenue; va
cant lot on Snowden Street; Spear
man Row (8) houses and lots; five
(5) tenant houses and lots Benedict
Street; twelve (12) tenant houses and
lots on Holloway Hill; Gilliam house
and lot in Pike; Jackson house and
lot in Pike; Cromer (2) houses and
lot in Pike; Gilliam house and lot in
Horseshoe Alley; DeHart house and
lot Silverstreet; two (2) brick store
buildings, Chappells.
H. C. HOLLOWAY.
Insert Feb. 15, 23: March 1.
LAND EXCHANGE NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that J. J.
Dominick has applied for exchange of
lands under the Act of March 3, 1925
(43 Stat. 1215). The applicant of
fers the Government all of that tract
of land located in Number 5 Town
ship, of Ncwbery county, South Car
olina, on the waters of Joshua Branch
of Guilder’s Creek, designated as U.
S. Forest Service tract no. 579a,
bounded on the south and east by the
lands acquired by the United States
from Newberry college on the north
east by the Singleton lands, on the
northwest by the lands of T. B. Amis,
and on the west by the lands of Mrs.
T. E. Eison, containing 262 acres,
more or less, and in exchange desires
to obtain approximately 271 M board
feet of stumpage valued at $1,572 to
be cut from the tract designated No.
76 conveyed to the United States by
the Carolina Fibre company, lying
west of the right-of-way of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad, within the
Francis Marion National Forest in
Berkeley County, South Carolina. The
purpose of this notice is to allow all
persons claiming said lands, or hav
ing bona fide objections to such ap
plication an opportunity to file their
protests with the office of the Region
al Forester, U. S. Forest Sersic^
Glenn Building, Atlanta, Georgia™on
or before the date of the last publi
cation thereof.
H. O. Stabler
Acting Regional Forester-
First publication, February 1st; Last
publication, February 23rd.
Wednesday, 21st, for Greenville State
hospital to undergo a n operation. We
wish him a speedy recovery and hope
that he will soon be back greatly be-
nefitted.
WE WANT YOU TO FEEL AT HOME
wherever good beer is sold
The Brewing Industry realizes that de
cent, respectable people prefer to patron
ize decent, inviting places.
And we agree with them.
That is why we are taking action —
in cooperation with law enforcement
authorities—to "clean-up or close-up”
beer retail establishments that disobey
the law or permit anti-social conditions.
To do this we have instituted a new
self-regulation plan now in operation In
a few states and being extended as rap
idly as possible.
We think you will be interested in
knowing something about this program.
May we tell you about it in an interest
ing free booklet?
Write to the United Brewers Indus
trial Foundation, 19 East 40th Street,
New York, N. Y.
BEER.. .a beverage of moderation
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